With the continuing spate of unsettled weather, it was good to see a forecast giving a moderate breeze straight down the strip. Rasp gave a good prospect of a soaring day which brought several pilots to the airfield wanting to fly. Two K6’s, a Libelle and Discus were rigged with a club K13 and K8 all towed to the launch point where they were joined by the Twin Astir.
Today we had a visitor, Mark Millard, who usually flies at Eden Soaring and Bowland Forest. He is an early solo pilot trying to regain currency and is on holiday in Newquay. Mark had two flights with me and thoroughly enjoyed his day at DGS.
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| Mark happy to be flying whilst on holiday. |
My flying list continued with John Allan, John Smith, Peter Mountford and Mark Elliott. All had good flights and made progress with on their roads to solo.
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| K13 waiting for the K6 to land. |
A new aircraft appeared on the airfield today. The new syndicate of Andy Davey and Martin Broadway got their first flights in their Libelle G-CJEU.
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| Andy and Martin with the Libelle |
Robin Wilson and Andrew Beaumont both flew with Phil Hardwick in the twin Astir.
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| Twin Astir launching into a promising sky. |
The solo pilots Mike Bennett (K6 FUB), Andy Davey (Libelle JEU), Colin Boyd (K6 FUB), Hugh Gascoyne (K6 FUB), Martin Broadway (Libelle JEU), Ed Borlase (K6 EWO), Gavin Short (K8 GDK), Malcolm Wilton-Jones (K8 GDK) and Richard Roberts (Discus V5) all enjoyed flights of varying length. Flight of the day was by Richard of 1hour 50minutes.
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| K6 FUB launching. |
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| Ed’s view of Malcolm in the K8 |
Unknown to us, we were being watched from Cox Tor. Whilst walking the dogs, Martin Cropper took an unusual view of the K8 launching.
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| K8 launching as seen from Cox Tor. |
Thank you to all at the airfield today. A busy day making best use of only a single cable operation. 39 flights achieved and some happy pilots.
Peter Howarth
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